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Fall 2012 AGU Meeting

The UF Geomorph group presented 2 posters at this Fall’s AGU meeting in San Francisco during the week of Dec. 3-7. In addition, Pete Adams helped convene the (now annually-occurring) “Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics” oral sessions, which have been growing in participation (see plot below).

Cheryl Hapke Gives UF Geo Dept. Seminar

On Oct. 18, 2012, we were fortunate to host Cheryl Hapke (Research Physical Scientist, USGS-St. Pete) this week for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below: You are invited to this week’s Fall 2012 Geological Sciences Seminar Series.  This week’s seminar will be presented by Dr. Cheryl Hapke, Research Physical Scientist at the St. Petersburg Coastal and […]

New PNAS Paper Published

On June 25, 2012 the following paper was published online:  Silliman, B. R., J. van de Koppel, M. W. McCoy, J. Diller, G. Kasozi, K. Earl, P. N. Adams, Andrew R. Zimmerman, 2012, Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, […]

ADCP Deployment

Last Wednesday (Feb. 15, 2012), our group deployed 3 ADCP units on the sea floor of the inner shelf adjacent to our Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center field site.  Shaun Kline accompanied divers and boat crew from the UF Coastal Engineering Lab (http://www.coastal.ufl.edu/laboratory.html) and IHA (http://www.ihamedical.com/environmental-services.html) to complete the installation.  These instruments will measure wave fields […]